Nucleotide sequence and analysis of the mouse SPC3 promoter region
- 19 December 1994
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 356 (2-3) , 339-341
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(94)01285-7
Abstract
Insulin is converted from the higher molecular weight proprotein, proinsulin by highly specific proteolytic cleavage at two dibasic amino acid sites. SPC3 and SPC2, two recently identified prohormone convertase that are specifically expressed in β cells and other neuroendocrine cells, appear to be responsible for those cleavages. We have sequenced the 5′‐upstream region of the SPC3 gene and examined its promotor/enhancer activity and most of several deletion mutants in several cell lines. This region contains no CAAT box but has several non‐functional TATA‐like sequences and several putative transcriptional regulatory elements, including AP‐1, Spl and cAMP response elements. These features are not unlike those of the human SPC2 upstream region. In βTC3 insulinoma cells, the sequence between theEcoRI (620 bp) and NsiI (702 bp) sites seems to be important for gene expression, while the sequence between the NsiI and DraI (775 bp) sites may contain strong enhancer element(s).Keywords
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